Storm Warning

Storm Warning is a 1951 American thriller, directed by Stuart Heisler, and stars Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, and Doris Day Marsha Mitchell , a traveling dress model, stops in the southern town of Rockpoint to see her newly wed sister Lucy Rice . Within minutes of entering the town she observes unusual behavior by the townsfolk, such as dozens of people closing up shop and getting out of sight. As she walks down the almost pitch dark main street, she observes loud noises coming from the town police station. She hides and observes a drunken KKK mob beating and berating a man they had just... broke out of prison. The man untangles himself from their clutches and runs, but only gets several yards before shotgun shots are fired from the mob, shooting him dead in both the chest and head. Confused, the mob approaches the fallen man, arguing amongst themselves. Marsha, who is hiding herself around the corner from the crime scene gets a good look at the two men who removed their hoods during the fiasco. After the mob quickly leaves the scene, Marsha runs to the nearby bowling alley where her sister is employed.
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